John Burton Race became a sous chef at the famous Les Manoir Aux Quat' Saisons and then head chef and manager of Le Petit Blanc.

John Burton Race then opened his own restaurant L'Ortolan, which gained two Michelin stars. In 2000 he opened John Burton Race in the Landmark Hotel.

I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here was not the first time that John Burton Race has been filmed upping sticks and living abroad.

In 2002, John Burton Race and his family moved to France for a year. Their experience of 14 months in a remote farmhouse there was filmed for Channel 4's French Leave.

In I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here in 2007 John Burton Race was the fourth celebrity to be voted out of the jungle.

Burton Race and his family then moved to Devon and bought the Carved Angel in Dartmouth, which they relaunched as the New Angel in May 2004. It led to another TV series, Coming Home / Return of the Chef.

However all was not as it appeared and it emerged that John Burton Race had a son with Susan Ward, his agent's former P.A.

In October 2007, The Daily Mail reported that John Burton Race was selling his restaurant "to settle a bitter £3.6million divorce battle."

According to The Scotsman Gordon Ramsay described John Burton Race as "manic", "obsessive" and "a bit of a hardarse".